Weathering
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Rock Cycle
Miscellaneous
100
The name for fragments of rocks and minerals.
What are sediments
100
The material that makes up sandstone, a medium-grained clastic sedimentary rock.
What is sand
100
The type of metamorphism that occurs when intrusive magma bodies touch pre-existing rock.
What is contact metamorphism
100
The type of rock that forms from the crystallization of magma or lava.
What are Igneous Rocks
100
These allow scientists to see a 'snapshot' of past life.
What are fossils
200
The physical or chemical process that breaks rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering
200
The percentage of open spaces between grains in a rock.
What is porosity
200
The grade of a metamorphic rock created from low pressure and low temperature.
What is low grade
200
The type of rock that forms from heat and pressure.
What are Metamorphic Rocks
200
The difference between organic limestone and chemical limestone.
Organic limestone is made from living things. Chemical limestone is made from a supersaturated solution.
300
The removal and movement of surface materials from one location to another.
What is erosion
300
Layers of chemical sedimentary rock
What are evaporites
300
The source of calcite found in organic calcite.
What are shells
300
The way a metamorphic rock is turned into an Igneous Rock.
What is melting
300
The property of shale that prevents water or oil from passing through
What is low porosity
400
When sediments are laid down on the ground or sink to the bottoms of bodies of water
What is depostion
400
The sedimentary rock type that formed from the remains of once-living things.
What are organic sedimentary rocks
400
The texture of a metamorphic rock that shows bands or layers of minerals
What is foliated texture
400
The way a sedimentary rock can turn into a different sedimentary rock.
What is weathering, erosion and lithification
400
The mineral that is most commonly found in sedimentary rocks
What is quartz
500
The type of bedding in which the particle sizes get progressively bigger towards the bottom.
What is graded bedding
500
The name of the coarse-grained clastic sedimentary rock.
What is conglomerate.
500
The three ways that a rock changes after being metamoprhosed.
What is mineralogy, chemical composition and texture
500
The parts of the rock cycle that occur inside the earth.
What is melting and heat & pressure
500
The five ways that sediments can be deposited.
What is wind, water, ice, gravity and chemical precipitation
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